Read full poem →"I will go where I am wanted, to a lady born and bred
Who will dress me free for nothing in a uniform of red;
Dictionary Entry
An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.
In a Sentence
“Sir John Smith and Lady Smith.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ladymary ladylady younglady old
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Related Words
Poetry examples for “lady”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
Read full poem →996-1004. When the men's wits mounted it showed that they were lighter,
less important, than the lady's hair, and so were destined to lose the
battle.
Read full poem →16 'L---- himself, that lively lord,
Who bows to every lady,
Shall join with F---- in one accord,
Read full poem →ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY[63] A STANDISH
AND TWO PENS.
Read full poem →Awkward and supple, each devoir to pay,
She flatters her good lady twice a-day;
Thought wondrous honest, though of mean degree,
Read full poem →But turn a wit, and scribble verses too;
Pierce the soft labyrinth of a lady's ear
With rhymes of this per cent, and that per year?
Read full poem →As long as Atalantis shall be read,
Or the small pillow grace a lady's bed,
While visits shall be paid on solemn days,
Read full poem →Have thought that in learning
To yield to a lady was hard.
Read full poem →I know how disagreeable it is to make use of hard words before a Lady;
but't is so much the concern of a Poet to have his works understood, and